Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

The way to good conduct is never too late.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.